Story:
While many of you may have played through Halo 3 ODST, some of you may not so I'll give a quick brief on it. Halo 3 ODST takes place in the African city of New Mombasa during the covenants invasion of earth. within the first moments of the story you find yourself in a ODST pod and dropping out of orbit in to the Earths atmosphere. You play the majority of the game as a character who goes by the name "The Rookie" who coincidently doesn't speak at all (a major flaw you'd think for a guy considered to be special forces). After dropping to Earth The Rookie finds himself roaming around the hostile streets of New Mombasa attempting to find clues as to the where abouts of his squad. During the campaign you also alternate between other characters in your squad during missions.
Gameplay:
Halo ODST's Gameplay feels very fluid on the Xbox One, You can tell that there was quite an effort put in to making the remastered version as it feels right at home on it's new system. The controls are quite responsive and feel really good with the Xbox One controller which is great. If anything, the 1080p upscaled graphics resolution has really given the gameplay a boost, fighting Hunters and Brutes feels much more surreal. I also must mention that roaming around the dark city as The Rookie has a much more bad ass feeling in 1080p. The Silenced SMG is still the greatest weapon addition to Halo ODST and the pistol also gets a special mention too. The pistol is a beast for head shotting Grunts. The only real negative I have about the remastered version is playing as ODST's as it is pretty much just like playing as the Master Chief. They have super human jumping, super human health and super human strength. In fact, I'm pretty sure the ODST's can rip off a turret and run around faster than the Master chief. I suggest if you really want to feel like you're playing as a ODST you might want to put the difficulty of the game up to legendary, chuck some skulls on too, you know you want to ;).
Some other things I'd like to mention about the remastered version is the Atmosphere of the game. At the time Bungie went for a much more darker Halo and it was great. A huge breathe of fresh air for the Halo series. The game in 1080p really emphasizes the darkness of the game The atmosphere feels even better than when it was on the Xbox 360, and when you throw in the absolutely amazing sound track you really do realize how good the Halo 3 ODST re master is. I must also mention the game looks stunning overall in 1080p 60 fps. The game really does react well to the 60 fps change and the graphics look they could stand up to any next generation game. 343 must be given props for the Halo 3 ODST re master.
While I really enjoyed the campaign, there is one major negative I want to get off my chest. There is no Fire Fight in the remastered version. This is a blaring negative to me because Fire Fight in the original Halo 3 ODST was a great addition. So how 343 came to the conclusion not to include Fire Fight is beyond me. Not only that, Fire Fight would of probably bought back a lot of players consistently to the Halo Master Chief collection, which could of been a really positive attribute for the game right now.
On an end note, this is fun to have a run through over again so if you enjoy halo it would be a great addition to your Master Chief Collection. You can buy it on the Xbox One story for $4.99 or if you were an early adopter of The Master Chief Collection you should receive the game for free. I won't give a review rating for this game as it's been out for awhile but I will give you an experience rating. The best I can give the overall experience is a 7/10. If the game came with Fire Fight the rating would be much higher.
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